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CELTA courses at IH Barcelona

About the CELTA course

The CELTA course is the original "TEFL" course and provides initial training leading to the Cambridge English Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA).

It is intended for those without previous experience who wish to enter the profession and for teachers with no previous training in this field.

CELTA enables you to obtain your first English teaching position: the course is highly regarded by employers around the world as providing sound initial training and a strong basis from which to develop as a teacher of English.

Indeed, without it, in many parts of the world (including Barcelona), employers simply won't consider applicants who have not passed CELTA.

NB The full-time course is very intensive and requires a full-time commitment. You cannot hold even a part-time job while taking the intensive course!

Summer discount available on the courses starred (save €190). See the application page for deadlines.

Teaching practice

Teaching practice is an integral part of the course. This is organised in small groups of 5-6 trainees teaching students at two or three different levels. After each teaching practice session an evaluation of the session is led by your course tutor.

You are expected to liase within your group outside course hours in order to plan teaching practice classes, according to guidelines provided by your course tutors.

Assessment and certificates

Trainees are continuously assessed in all the syllabus areas, including written assignments, and with particular emphasis on their teaching ability and potential.

Dragan

Dragan has a PGCE in Modern Languages and worked in secondary schools in London, where he taught English and Serbian for 15 years. He has been a teacher trainer since 2011 and worked at IH London and IH Madrid before starting to work full-time at IH Barcelona in February 2015.

Liz

Liz has worked at IH Barcelona since 2003, teaching everything from beginners to Proficiency to both adults and young learners. As well as being a tutor on our CELTA courses and courses she has also taught multicultural classes in Britain, preparing university students for their Master's course.

Claire

Claire taught English in Taiwan, Turkey and the UK before coming to Barcelona in 2004.

She has been a CELTA course tutor since 2000, in both London and Barcelona, and has worked on part time, full time and blended CELTA courses.

Gerard

Emma did her own CELTA and DELTA course at IH London and taught and trained there between 2006-2015.

She also worked in Korea and Saudi Arabia, as well as her native Dublin, before coming to Barcelona in 2015.

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Why CELTA...?

CELTA is probably the most internationally recognised ELT certificate in the world